Corruption hates what is not corrupt.

The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led.

This Christmas, every Christmas, Santa Claus is everywhere and Jesus is nowhere to be found.

We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.

Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.

And you’re disappointed in the story. I know you wanted a love story.

There’s nothing cruel about a vampire or a parasite, she said.

That’s why it’s difficult to write about your own life. Any distortion feels like a betrayal.

It's time to laugh at your nightmares and have nightmares of your laughter.

There are many things for which I owe gratitude to my dad. Most of all, I am grateful to the only man who could love my mother more than me.

The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting.

Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance.

The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.

You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.

That has less significance than a dog's fart.

Age: I go slower as time goes faster.

My songs is hard stuff which politicians don't want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.